Sidebar

Contents

People
Jews born in or connected to Latvia

Search people


Culture
Cultural and social life of Latvian Jews

Geography
Towns and cities where Jews lived in Latvia

Khait Khena Abramovna (1904)

Personal data
SurnameKhait
NameKhena
PatronymAbramovna
Birth year1904
Birth month5
Birth day3
Birth placeDaugavpils
SexF

Khait (Heit) (née Zakher) Khena (Hena) Abramovna (3 May 1904, Daugavpils) — factory worker.

Khena Khait was born into the family of Abram Isakovich Zakher (1865, Daugavpils — murdered in Riga during the German occupation in 1941) and Khaya Zakher (1870, Daugavpils — murdered in Riga during the German occupation in 1941).

In 1914 she was evacuated to Vologda and returned in 1919.

She worked as a knitter in workshops and later at the enterprise “Krasny Klubok” (“Red Ball of Yarn”).

In 1941 she was evacuated to the Molotov Region, village of Senishovo. In 1945 she returned to Riga and was a homemaker.

In marriage with Yankel Lazarevich Khait (23 January 1906, Rēzekne) two daughters were born:

Gita Yankelevna Eidelman (née Khait) (1929, Riga) and Miryama Yankelevna Faynshteyn (née Khait) (1934, Riga).

In 1965 Khena Khait received permission to emigrate to Israel to join her sister, Sima Abramovna Finkel (née Zakher).

Family:

Abram Isakovich Zakher (1865–1941, Daugavpils) — father
Khaya Zakher (1870–1941, Daugavpils) — mother
Golde-Meri Abramovna Zakher (killed by gendarmes during the gathering at the “Zaksa” match factory in 1905) — sister
Iosif Abramovich Zakharov (née Zakher) — brother
Gese-Leya Abramovna Lyasko (née Zakher) — sister
Grigory Zakharievich Goldberg (née Zakher) — brother
Gita Abramovna Izralshtam (née Zakher) (drowned in 1925, Subate) — sister
Moisey Abramovich Zakher (perished in the Stutthof concentration camp) — brother
Sima Abramovna Finkel (née Zakher) (emigrated to Israel in 1932 in search of work) — sister
Aron Abramovich Zakher (died in 1906) — brother
Yankel Lazarevich Khait (1906, Rēzekne) — husband
Gita Yankelevna Eidelman (née Khait) (1929) — daughter
Miryama Yankelevna Faynshteyn (née Khait) (1934) — daughter